Another game to be released from the LINE gaming app this time includes “LINE cartoon wars” – a classic defense game which has been hugely popular, with the original Cartoon Wars game receiving over 100 million downloads worldwide! LINE users can also receive special stickers absolutely free when downloading this special LINE version of the game.

The Black and White cartoon tribe: these stick-men have stood up for freedom from being ruled by the color tribes. “LINE cartoon wars” puts you in the center of the action and lets you become the hero! Protect your castle while attacking the enemies’! This is a great tower defense game which will definitely keep you occupied!

How to Play:

1. Gather soldiers with a range of skills and attack the enemies’ castle

2. Fire arrows from the top of your caste and prevent your enemies from advancing.

3. Tilt your smatphone to scroll though the screen.

As you advance through the stages your enemies will get tougher to beat. Make sure your castle doesn’t get attacked by upgrading your allies and making them the strongest war machines!

Never played a defense game? “LINE cartoon wars” is the perfect game for both beginners and experts alike!

The 2nd gaming app released by LINE, “LINE PATAPOKO ANIMAL” is a new kind of target-practicing puzzle game. A unique and exhilarating story where you have to, “stop the animals from escaping their picture book world by throwing vegetables at them.”

You can also treat yourself to some free stickers by downloading the app!

How to Play:

Touch the animals to throw vegetables at them! Tilt your smartphone, adjust the trajectory and fire your vegetables! You can get a chain of animals by firing into a pack of them. When the heat gets too much, you can use the lightning bolts to clear many of them at once!

2 modes of play, both as great as the other: You can go through the 72 magical levels filled with surprises or you can play the Challenge Mode where you can see who gets the highest scores amongst your LINE friends!

The first wave of new games released on the LINE gaming app features LINE POP!

How do you play? It’s easy! Simply line up 3 or more of the same icons (blocks) to make them disappear.

You have 1 minute to set your high scores.

Quick Hints and Tips:

- The more blocks you get rid of in one go, the higher your score will be. Try lining up 4 or 5 and let the fun begin.

- Get 5 or more combos to enter Fever Mode! This is when things start heating up! Keep deleting those blocks!

- Look out for the Hyper blocks! Fill your Combo Gauge up to full to these specials. You can delete many blocks at once. Yippee!

The fun doesn’t stop there either! The blocks in LINE POP feature all our favorite LINE characters such as Brown, Moon, and Cony who will come up on your screen briefly to say hello once you get those combos! The usual funny faces and other expressions are all included!

Also, Brown is really excited about this game and will be there to support you every step of the way.

Link this game up with your LINE account and you can compete for high scores, as well as giving and receiving hearts and other gifts from friends to help you get even higher scores! Once you run out of hearts, it’s probably better to ask your most generous friend to top you up!

It may be a cute game but the battle for the highest scores will get serious! Play with all your friends and have fun.

LINE’s official gaming app has released 4 new titles to bring your gaming world to life!

After the first release of “LINE Birzzle” earlier this year in July, we have focused on making it even more fun for you to enjoy the games with your LINE friends.

Get some free stickers too! All LINE users who download these new games can get free stickers to use in their LINE chats! Aren’t we generous?!

And the games are great too! There’s something for everyone - puzzle games featuring the awesome LINE characters, as well as hardcore card-battle RPGs. Try them all and find the best one for you! (Maybe all of them)

■LINE POP

Simple is the best! Line up 3 or more of the same blocks while watching Brown, Moon and Cony who are featured within this addictive game. For more details on how to play, click here!

Availability: Worldwide

▼Get these awesome free stickers when you download LINE POP! (total 8 stickers)

*Available from 12pm (JST) on 19 Nov

(iOS Users HURRY – only available until 4pm (JST) on 22Nov 30 Nov)

■LINE cartoon wars

Super popular action game “Cartoon Wars” comes to LINE! It’s been downloaded over 10 million times worldwide and is guaranteed to give you a lot of fun! Control the stick-men (soldiers) and protect your castle while conquering the opponent’s in this classic Tower Defense Game!

You gotta play to believe! In “LINE PATAPOKO ANIMAL” you have to hit animals with vegetables to stop them from escaping their world of picture-books. What? That’s right! There are 2 modes of play. You can go through 72 highly entertaining stages of the game or you can enjoy with friends by competing for the highest scores in Challenge Mode.

Wow! Ever wanted to hit homeruns? Well now you can with “LINE Homerun Battle Burst! Have a blast and relieve some tension by hitting those homeruns! It’s amazing! Anyone can play this wonderful game.

Availability: Japan, Taiwan, Thailand

These fantastic gaming apps from LINE give you the opportunity to have so much more fun with your games! Simply link these gaming apps to your LINE account and send your LINE friends items, compete for the highest score rankings, and of course, you can send messages to friends to let them know you have beaten their highest scores! How is that for ultimate satisfaction?!

We hope you have an amazing time playing these games with your LINE friends!

Also, in these last few weeks we have had a huge surge in user numbers from both Spain and South American regions, leading to LINE claiming the number 1 spot in both the Free Apps and Social Networking categories at App Stores in many countries.

(As of 14 November 2012)

LINE has received much positive attention from both Spanish media and famous bloggers. Whether it’s the free messaging, the free calls, the convenience of the PC version, or the stickers, LINE continues to be highly rated as a stable, all-in-one app with easy to use features. LINE camera and other LINE related apps have also been praised for being super-fun.

LINE is currently used in over 230 countries. This made-in-Japan service is popular in other areas too: in South-East Asian regions such as Taiwan, and Thailand, Middle-Eastern regions, Russia, and of course Spain and South America.

So what next? We will continue to learn and improve our services so that you can have more fun with LINE! Whether you’re in Spanish speaking regions or English speaking areas, we will always be there to bring more life into your smartphone communications.

We at the NHN Japan Corporation would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to each and every one of our customers.

As you may know, we operate and own the free calling and messaging application “LINE”, and yesterday (31 Oct 2012) we experienced some technical problems with the PC version of LINE leading to some of our users receiving random messages from unknown users during their chats due to a crossover of chat messages.

We would like to offer our sincere apologies for the anxiety and inconvenience this has caused to our users.

In order to carry out the necessary revisions to our system, there were moments when the PC version of LINE was made temporarily unavailable, however the problems have been rectified and the PC version is now up and running as normal.

At NHN Japan, we are taking this occurrence very seriously and will continue to work hard in order to prevent this from happening again.

Further Information

Summary:

On 31 October 2012, problems with the PC version of LINE led to the following:

1) For approx. 5 minute period from 18:55 (JST) on the 31 October 2012, some users of the PC version of LINE received random messages from unknown users during their chats due to a crossover of chat messages.

Causes:

Problems were caused by a technical fault with the system running the PC version, whilst attempting to update.

As soon as the problem was detected, it was immediately dealt with and has already been fixed.

Extent of the problem:

We have confirmed that the problem affected 86 users in total who sent messages using the PC version of LINE which were subsequently delivered incorrectly to unintended users. Furthermore, we have received inquiries from 12 users so far regarding this problem.

Circumstances:

31/Oct (Wed) 18:55 PC version of LINE: Systems are updated

Problems are detected where some users of the PC version receive random messages from unknown users during their chats due to a crossover of chat messages

Works gets underway on fixing the problem

19:00 Problem is rectified

19:15 PC users who received the incorrect messages are forcefully logged out in order to prevent these messages from being read

19:25 Log out process is completed. An investigation into the causes and the extent of the problem begins

20:50 Primary announcement made to users via the official LINE Facebook page

21:49 Secondary announcement made to users via the LINE Official Blog

1/Nov (Thu) 19:00 Investigation into the causes and the extent of the problem is completed

21:00 Official statement released by NHN Japan Corporation

Furthermore, the regulatory agencies have been notified

Customer Support:

After the start of the problem, a fixed version of the software was released immediately. After logging in again, the problem was rectified and users did not receive any further messages from unknown users. The message histories of the users affected were able to be accessed as normal.

Furthermore, our support teams are individually contacting all the users affected by the problem. As a small consolation, we are sending a 500 yen Amazon gift voucher to each of those affected.

Measures for future prevention:

To prevent the problem from re-occurring, we have introduced stricter regulations and checks by our development, quality assurance and security teams to improve the overall security to all our company systems.

Contact Customer Support:

If you have been affected, you can get in touch with our customer support team via the Problem Report Form , and they will provide a rapid response to your inquiry.

At approximately 7pm (JST) on 31 October there were some problems with the PC version of LINE. Some users may have experienced random messages from unknown users during their chats caused by temporary system problems which occurred for a few minutes. We have rushed to fix this and the problems have now been rectified.

In addition to fixing the problem, we have also deleted the contents of the messages sent from unknown users and you should be able to login an enjoy the PC version of LINE without any further problems.

Furthermore, those who were forcefully logged out of the PC version of LINE during the problem will be able to login as normal.

If you were affected please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused on this occasion.

We will of course, keep working hard on improving the stability of our systems.

Thank you very much for reading and please continue to enjoy our LINE service.

We will be releasing a formal statement about this issue at a later date. Formal statement

*Don’t worry iPhone users! They will be available to you soon! (22nd Oct)

Up until now, we’ve released a whole range of stickers featuring exciting characters at our Sticker Shop but we know you have all been waiting for these!

After receiving many requests from our users from all over the world, we’ve finally made this happen with our good friends at Disney!

Mickey Mouse will be featured in our first set. Our designers teamed up with Disney and thought long and hard about what sort of expressions will be useful to you in your LINE chats. The result is an all original design featuring over 40 stickers!

At the moment the stickers are available in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, and Brunei.

Of course, you will be able to find Mickey’s happy smiles, but also stickers of him studying, being in love and much more! They’ll be one to suit every occasion and as a bonus, Mini Mouse will be joining Mickey in some of the stickers too!

After Mickey Mouse, stickers featuring other Disney characters including Mini Mouse and Winne the Pooh will be released (YEY !), and there are also plans to create seasonal versions of Disney stickers especially for Christmas, New Years Festivals, and other yearly events.